Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pauperize \Pau"per*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pauperized}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Pauperizing}.]
   To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

Source : WordNet®

pauperize
     v : reduce to beggary [syn: {beggar}, {pauperise}]